Singapore Idol Auditions - Heatwaaaaaaaaaave!

Yes. The day for the auditions of Singapore Idol 2 is FINALLY here!!! Yeah!!!! *clap hands* I've been waiting so bloody long for this day to come! I remembered queuing up overnight in 2004, just to be the 1st 500 or something to be auditioned on that day itself. The super stormy weather, the pain of rejection, my glittery hair (don't laugh), stupid organisers blah blah blah.

This year I want to play my cards differently. I thought it will be better if I didn't queue up overnight. I mean... I only slept 1 freaking hours the last time round, so why tire myself out for 2 mins of audition? Might as well come cleaner and fresher :D so a few friends of mine and I came together to achieve a dream that's so far... the next Singapore Idol!

DAY 1 - 11hrs for... what?!??!

Woke up at 5.45am in the morning. Shower and prepared myself to leave the house. Was supposed to meet Christina (friend from poly) and Jeremy at 7am, but I left a little late, cos I had to buff my nails, make my hair, drink 'pi pa kao' etc... all the essential stuff before leaving. I mean you don't wanna go unglam and with a horrid voice right?

Listen to some fast music... great 'workout' beat. Hahaha! Reach *scape at Cineleisure Orchard around 7.15am. Wah lau it's so freaking long, it's as if the whole of Singapore is here! Hahahaha and more and more people just started coming in one by one!!! Goodness!! Managed to find Christina after what seems to be like forever!!! Called Jeremy and he came with his friend, Imran. It was quite quiet in a way, maybe cos we just met lah. Then after a while, things started to get more fun.

The thing about Imran is that he's SO freaking funny! It's like... he can be an entertainer loh! From his Anita Sarawak imitation to his million accents, he just knows how to crack you up! He's just so fun lah!

In between the 1st few hours, we took turns to walk out to go to the toilet, get breakfast etc. I didn't buy any food cos I didn't really want that to affect my voice (can't sing when I eat). Later on, while accompanying Christina to buy food, Phyllis (Christina's friend's sister) came and joined the queue. Nice girl.

Last year, it rained like hell. This year, the heat was on. Seriously, you can fry eggs on the floor and get a free suntan within 1 hour. Free of charge. Don't have to go to those tanning nonsense. And forget about Marie France Bodyline. I think I was prepared to lose 5kg with the heat burning off my fats! Hahahah!

You know what's the most salah thing to happen? To get interviewed when you are complaining like a typical Singaporean about weather, food etc... guess what? It happened to me. They just filmed me complaining about everything. Oh my God! Then the producer just asked me to tell them my age and stuff. Then she asked me to sing.

'Oh my God... should I?' Then with all my guts, I just went for it and sang my heart out. Everyone was looking. Quite scary. But the producer liked it and I thanked her in return. Wah lau. Little did we know that this is only the beginning.

Daniel Ong walked by and interviewed Jeremy and Imran. They had to sing out in a 'showdown'. Kinda silly of Daniel to come up with that but, oh well, guess it was for entertainment purpose. Jeremy was good. Imran also good. Ai yo. I don't know if I can make it through lah. Then we got filmed again for this '5 days to Singapore Idol' trailer. Ai yo! Enough attention!!!!!!!!!!!!

11 hours of nonsense. All sorts, I can tell you. I accompanied Jeremy to the toilet like every 45 mins!!! Goodness!!! And there was this mad guy who kept looking at me. Using the umbrella to block him didn't work lah! He kept bothering me with questions and stuff like that. He talks weirdly some more. Ai yo!!!

Then we have heat. A LOT of heat! It was super hot! Most of us were like perspiring in our shirts/dresses/skirts/whatever clothings. The hosts of Singapore Idol didn't make things better. They tried to get us to be excited, but the sun kinda drained out energy out. Like hello!??! hahahaha

To add on the to nonsense, we sighted some funny people. There was a young girl whom we call 'Tiara' because she has a 'tiara' on her head. She looks salah (sorry). Then in the midst, there was a 'pink lady' wannabe. Hahaha but she looks like a rock version, you know like the real singer Pink? Yeah... but whether or not we are looking at that, I don't know...

At 6pm, we finally reached the front of the queue. My friends and I were super excited. Like yea!!! We're gonna be auditioned. It turned out that they've stopped auditions for the day, so we are just gonna register. Like what?!??! Wah lau eh!!! So we went to register for Singapore Idol. The good news is that we will be the first batch to audition for the day, so we don't have to wait so long the next day. Thank God!!!

All of us were totally shagged. I mean queuing up like that isn't that easy. But it was the support from each other that gave us motivation. I was supposed to meet Sangeetha and stuff, but I was so tired, I just couldn't bring myself to disappoint Sangeetha by disappointing her (what an irony!)! It's like... my legs were really tired and I don't have much energy to do anything, so I went straight back home, cook noodles to eat.. rested a while and sleep. Can't take it anymore!!!


DAY 2 - The Time Has Come...

Woke up slightly earlier. Same thing over. Just that we are meeting a little later cos we have a confirmed timing and we know that we are definitely gonna be the 1st batch of people to be auditioned. Yay me! Hahahah :P

Anyway I came early because I was prepared. And bored lah, so just walk to the place. Then I realised that I was the 1st (oh my God) and guess who was 2nd? The mad guy (aka Cheeko)!!! ARGH!!! I tried listening to my iRiver... but he still talked to me. I just replied normally and then thankfully he left into his own world of BSB (yes he's gonna sing that) and 'warm ups'.

Jeremy was the 1st one of my whole group of friends (and new friends) to come. He came and we talked about the songs we are singing. He's just worried lah. I can see that he's really concerned about his singing, voice, song etc. I honestly think he's got nothing to worry. Maybe a bit of pitch here and there at times. I think he's overworrying lah. Really.

One by one the others came. The fun is back. Almost everyone changed into something new. Oh damn I feel so dirty lah. But I dried my clothes and I put perfume, so all is good. And if not for the bloody woman, I wouldn't wear back the same thing. Oh nvm!!!

Anyway earlier on the security told me that it was on a first-come-first-serve basis. Nonsense! Like hello? We were promised to be 1st!! Nonsense. Luckily didn't trust him. Nonsense. NONSENSE! hahahah! :P

Phyllis told me that I'm a photo freak. I just realised that I took a lot of pics. In the queue, out of the queue, with umbrellas etc. I'm crazy!!! I don't know why... I'm starting to love candid and mad shots. I even took a pic of myself with my registration number. Yeah... as if I'm Top 30 right now.

Anyway we re-confirmed out position and sat at a certain holding area, whereby we will wait to be escorted to the audition rooms (finally!!!) . Christina helped me take pics of my friends and I with our number tags. Really cute leh! Hahahaha! Then Imran got interviewed (ai yo), then Christina and Jeremy too.

Ai yo... then we were escorted up to 9th Level. It was really cool. I feel so digitalised! Hahaha! Stupid b**** didn't let me wear my tag below part of my T-shirt because my shirt has an 'emblem' that says 'Music is the answer'. What's the point of paying for a T-shirt that cost nearly $40... if the judges can't see it in the first place!???! Wah lau!

Anyway, we waited again. Imran got interviewed yet again. But this time round, Cheeko got interviewed. His words and speech were awfully weird, but we can't like laugh cos they were filming. Ai yo! Cannot take it. Imran made me laugh and laugh and laugh. God! This is infectious lah!

Then we finally reached a step closer to the audition rooms. We sat outside the rooms, while being instructed on what to do when we get in there. This Imran started his jokes again. Still laughing. I had to ask him to stop lah... but it kinda makes me relax in a way. Hahaha I mean I was nervous... but it's really not bad at all.

I learned a new word thru him. It's called 'boyat'. Actually, one of the girls sitting opposite us were talking about their number tags being 'salah', so one of them said 'goyat'. But it sounded like 'boyat' and Imran made a joke out of it. And the following contestants were told by dear Imran to think of 'boyat' every time we get nervous! HAHA!

Anyway, Imran went in after a number of people went in. Next was my turn. Then I suddenly think about what the judges will think about my performance. I remembered being so 'blur', cos I didn't know that this round was not the real judges, but the producers and some music critic, whatever! Yeah... and they stopped me halfway through my song the last time round. But I know that... whatever happens, I'll do my best.

Imran comes out. Oh dear. But I'm really relaxed. I went in and introduced myself and my song. Alamak. The same thing happened last year. I looked into the camera!!! ARGH! Hahahah nvm... cos I didn't noticed until the producer told me to look *away* from the camera before I sing. And I just sang.

Okay... they didn't stop me. Good. They look quite impressed (I think). Then they asked about my job. NS, I told them. Then they were concerned about not being able to make it blahblah blah and I tried to defend myself. Then came a long chat on singing tips, friends, religion (huh??)... then it was over. Ai yo!!! It's OVER!

Okay there might be a bit of hope. So, off I went to the results room. In less than 5 minutes, a lady came up and stood in front of the results room,

"Okay.. these are the numbers that are not making it to the next round. 1-something..., 1-something... and 1329."

I looked at my number tag. Oh. Alamak. Me ah? So off I went down. It's sad, but I was cool. I went over to Long John's Silver to meet the others. Christina got in. Andy got in. Jeremy got in. Imran got in. The rest no, including cute Phyllis. Ai yo. Everyone was kinda sad for those who didn't make it.

But I'm like... "hai ya... nvm lah! 2nd time already, I can handle it". In fact... throughout the day after that... I was happy! It's kinda like a load off your mind. I mean, think of it positively, at least they didn't stop me halfway through the song and that's an achievement already because I think I did better than the last time round. It's all cool.

Surprisingly I ate Long John's Silver. Hahha I don't like it, but the breakfast set... oh my God quite nice leh!

CONCLUSION

I learn that in life, we've gotta handle rejections. All sorts of rejections. I've been rejected once. And yes this is the 2nd time. It's hard, but I mustn't let it affect my dream and vision. It's a long way ahead, but life goes on.

And Jeremy told me this, "You sing because you like it, not for the money or to be on TV." And I thought to myself... 'Yeah... I do like to sing!'. I mean isn't that why I joined the competition in the 1st place!?!?!?!

I've learnt from this. I'm happy because at least I know that I've tried my best and that I think I did better than last season. And I made new friends. And I took lotsa pics (haha). And I had a positive attitude. It's cool!!! So everyone, DON'T GIVE UP. I've been rejected but IT'S NOT THE END FOR ME.

And remember... whenever you feel stressed, nervous, sad etc... think of BOYAT! Hahahah it'll make you laugh :P

VOTE FOR US!!!
















Me waiting in the never ending queue...
















And still waiting...






















HELLO???? You auditioning for Singapore Idol for Memoirs of a Geisha??
















MISERY!!! It's so bloody hot!!!
















Looks who's getting interviewed... Daniel Ong interviewing Imran (left) and Jeremy (right)

















Pretty Phyllis in da block!!!

















Nice shoes. Hahahha that's how 'sian' the queue was... do you think this is real Nike btw?
















Your next Singapore Idol finalists. Hahahah just kidding. But soon lah.



















Christina and I before entering 'danger zone'. Ahahaha :P


















Kawaii!!! Hahahahah Imran and I at the 9th Level.